Flexing Their Muscles: Building a successful business partnership [Career Advisor: Experiences from the Real World]

What do you get when you pair a passionate and intelligent engineering professor at the University of Maryland with two ambitious and hard working recent engineering graduates? FlexEl.This company develops a novel, high-capacity, rechargeable thin film battery. IEEE Fellow Dr. Martin Peckerar, professor of microelectronic engineering at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering and the brains that helped launch the company, tells us how it all started.